¹Behold, how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.

¹انظروا اية محبة اعطانا الآب حتى ندعى اولاد الله. من اجل هذا لا يعرفنا العالم لانه لا يعرفه.

²Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet revealed what we will be. But we know that, when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.

²ايها الاحباء الآن نحن اولاد الله ولم يظهر بعد ماذا سنكون. ولكن نعلم انه اذا أظهر نكون مثله لاننا سنراه كما هو.

³Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.

³وكل من عنده هذا الرجاء به يطهر نفسه كما هو طاهر.

⁴Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.

⁴كل من يفعل الخطية يفعل التعدي ايضا. والخطية هي التعدي.

⁵You know that he was revealed to take away our sins, and in him is no sin.

⁵وتعلمون ان ذاك أظهر لكي يرفع خطايانا وليس فيه خطية.

⁶Whoever remains in him doesn’t sin. Whoever sins hasn’t seen him, neither knows him.

⁶كل من يثبت فيه لا يخطئ. كل من يخطئ لم يبصره ولا عرفه

⁷Little children, let no one lead you astray. He who does righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.

⁷ايها الاولاد لا يضلّكم احد. من يفعل البر فهو بار كما ان ذاك بار

⁸He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. To this end the Son of God was revealed, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

⁸من يفعل الخطية فهو من ابليس لان ابليس من البدء يخطئ. لاجل هذا أظهر ابن الله لكي ينقض اعمال ابليس.

⁹Whoever is born of God doesn’t commit sin, because his seed remains in him; and he can’t sin, because he is born of God.

⁹كل من هو مولود من الله لا يفعل خطية لان زرعه يثبت فيه ولا يستطيع ان يخطئ لانه مولود من الله.

¹⁰In this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the devil. Whoever doesn’t do righteousness is not of God, neither is he who doesn’t love his brother.

¹⁰بهذا اولاد الله ظاهرون واولاد ابليس. كل من لا يفعل البر فليس من الله وكذا من لا يحب اخاه.

¹¹For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another;

¹¹لان هذا هو الخبر الذي سمعتموه من البدء ان يحب بعضنا بعضا.

¹²unlike Cain, who was of the evil one, and killed his brother. Why did he kill him? Because his works were evil, and his brother’s righteous.

¹²ليس كما كان قايين من الشرير وذبح اخاه. ولماذا ذبحه. لان اعماله كانت شريرة واعمال اخيه بارة

¹³Don’t be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you.

¹³لا تتعجبوا يا اخوتي ان كان العالم يبغضكم.

¹⁴We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who doesn’t love his brother remains in death.

¹⁴نحن نعلم اننا قد انتقلنا من الموت الى الحياة لاننا نحب الاخوة. من لا يحب اخاه يبق في الموت.

¹⁵Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him.

¹⁵كل من يبغض اخاه فهو قاتل نفس. وانتم تعلمون ان كل قاتل نفس ليس له حياة ابدية ثابتة فيه.

¹⁶By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

¹⁶بهذا قد عرفنا المحبة ان ذاك وضع نفسه لاجلنا فنحن ينبغي لنا ان نضع نفوسنا لاجل الاخوة.

¹⁷But whoever has the world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and closes his heart of compassion against him, how does the love of God remain in him?

¹⁷واما من كان له معيشة العالم ونظر اخاه محتاجا واغلق احشاءه عنه فكيف تثبت محبة الله فيه.

¹⁸My little children, let’s not love in word only, neither with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.

¹⁸يا اولادي لا نحب بالكلام ولا باللسان بل بالعمل والحق.

¹⁹And by this we know that we are of the truth, and persuade our hearts before him,

¹⁹وبهذا نعرف اننا من الحق ونسكن قلوبنا قدامه.

²⁰because if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.

²⁰لانه ان لامتنا قلوبنا فالله اعظم من قلوبنا ويعلم كل شيء

²¹Beloved, if our hearts don’t condemn us, we have boldness toward God;

²¹ايها الاحباء ان لم تلمنا قلوبنا فلنا ثقة من نحو الله

²²and whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.

²²ومهما سألنا ننال منه لاننا نحفظ وصاياه ونعمل الاعمال المرضية امامه.

²³This is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he commanded.

²³وهذه هي وصيته ان نؤمن باسم ابنه يسوع المسيح ونحب بعضنا بعضا كما اعطانا وصية.

²⁴He who keeps his commandments remains in him, and he in him. By this we know that he remains in us, by the Spirit which he gave us.

²⁴ومن يحفظ وصاياه يثبت فيه وهو فيه. وبهذا نعرف انه يثبت فينا من الروح الذي اعطانا